Spano v. New York
| Spano v. New York | |
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| Argued April 27, 1959 Decided June 22, 1959 | |
| Full case name | Spano v. New York |
| Citations | 360 U.S. 315 (more) 79 S. Ct. 1202; 3 L. Ed. 2d 1265; 1959 U.S. LEXIS 751 |
| Case history | |
| Prior | 4 N.Y.2d 256, 173 N.Y.S.2d 793, 150 N.E.2d 226 |
| Holding | |
| The Court held that the interrogation violated Spano's 14th Amendment due process rights because Spano's confession was not voluntary. | |
| Court membership | |
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| Case opinions | |
| Majority | Warren |
| Concurrence | Douglas, joined by Black, Brennan |
| Concurrence | Stewart, joined by Douglas, Brennan |
| Laws applied | |
| Fifth Amendment | |
Spano v. New York, 360 U.S. 315 (1959), represented the Supreme Court's movement away from the amorphous voluntariness standard for determining whether police violated due process standards when eliciting confessions and towards the modern rule in Miranda v. Arizona. In Spano, the Court focused less on factors such as meals provided to the accused and more on whether the accused had access to legal counsel.